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May Quotes by Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
- We make war that we may live in peace.
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed…
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone…
- Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though…
- Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.
- If there is any kind of animal which is female and has no male separate from it, it is possible that this may generate a…
- . .we would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in that case hand…
- In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.
- Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion,…
- It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous.
- Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy
- Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.
- The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the builder, the final…
- And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical…
- In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not…
- Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.
- We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
More May Quotes
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May. — William Shakespeare
- The parents have to learn that the child should not be insulted, humiliated, condemned. If you want to help him, love him… — Rajneesh